Tanked
How New York dealt with the “noble experiment”
David Greenberg
Dry Manhattan:
Prohibition in New York City
by Michael A. Lerner
Harvard University Press
$28.95 List Price
“You never knew what you were drinking or who you’d wake up with. . . . We wore wishbone diaphragms that weren’t always reliable. There was a woman doctor who handled abortions for our crowd. She would take a vacation at Christmastime to rest up for the rush after New Year’s Eve.”
So wrote Lois Long, a twentysomething correspondent for the New Yorker, the smart-set weekly that debuted in Prohibition-era Manhattan and
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